Biography
Prof. Paul Oh joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as the Lincy Professor of Unmanned Aerial Systems in 2014. Prior, he was in Drexel University’s Mechanical Engineering Department 2000-2014 where he founded and directed the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B. Eng 1989), Seoul National (M. Sc. 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999) universities. He is a Fellow of NASA (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), Boeing (2006) and ASME (2012). He received research (2004 NSF CAREER) and teaching (2005 SAE Ralph Teetor Award for Engineering Education Excellence) awards and authored over 100 publications. From 2008 to 2010, he served as an NSF Program Director managing the robotics research portfolio. From 2012-2015 he led Team DRC-Hubo and Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.